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Directed by Jim McBride; Screenplay by Jack Baran and Jim McBride...
...zeal mirrors an explosion in environmental activism throughout the world. Stories about the burning rain forest, global warming and the Exxon Valdez spill have left people feeling a loss of ecological innocence. "It's an issue you can't escape -- even if you live in Beverly Hills," says Josh Baran, a Los Angeles public relations consultant...
Having made the film their own, freeze advocates are now using it, in the words of Disarmament Activist Josh Baran, "to educate people. It is the best use of television I can think of." Last April, Baran helped start an ad hoc organization called The Day Before, which will work with 17 national antinuclear groups to set up seminars in more than 100 cities around the country for two days following the film's air date. Ground Zero will mail out 100,000 viewing guides. The Center for Defense Information is considering producing a 60-sec. commercial, narrated...
...example of the revolving door between the Government and the contractors is the role of Robert Baran, an electronics engineer. In 1978 Baran left his job in Naval Air Systems Command to go with a consulting firm named Science Applications Inc. (SAI), where he worked on projects that he had first suggested at his old job. Eventually, Baran claims, he got $417,000 worth of defense contracts for SAI by what he calls "the judicious use of hyperbole and exaggeration." Baran even admitted to TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty: "I did my part to falsify technical data to suit the objective...
...time. Part of the problem may be that, at this school, anything mathematical smacks too much of the dreaded pre-med courses. Worse, "thoughtful" courses in the social sciences often cover the feeblest exclusively verbal epigones of Mars but not far more important works by thinkers like Paul Baran, who are articulate both with words and numbers. Too often, students are taught that they should think thoroughly before looking at facts...